12-07-2023, 03:29 PM
The Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Mr. Tchaikovsky really likes his highly advanced bugs. I could almost see how this book might be the prequel for his Shadow of the Apt series, but no. Earth is seeding the galaxy and they want to start a whole new species/ecosystem using monkeys and some bio-engineering to make them evolve faster. But something goes wrong and spiders get the evolution juice instead. The book follows their evolution over the course of several thousand years as successive generations evolve. Meanwhile an Ark ship from earth needs to settle there but also runs into problems. The two storylines intertwine as the ark ship people go in and out of cold storage while the spiders get smarter.
I almost stopped when I realized it was another evolved bug book but the story kept taking turns and I was involved. I was lost on some of the evolution stuff Tchaikovsky throws in there but I did like the story by the end. Two more books to go.
Mr. Tchaikovsky really likes his highly advanced bugs. I could almost see how this book might be the prequel for his Shadow of the Apt series, but no. Earth is seeding the galaxy and they want to start a whole new species/ecosystem using monkeys and some bio-engineering to make them evolve faster. But something goes wrong and spiders get the evolution juice instead. The book follows their evolution over the course of several thousand years as successive generations evolve. Meanwhile an Ark ship from earth needs to settle there but also runs into problems. The two storylines intertwine as the ark ship people go in and out of cold storage while the spiders get smarter.
I almost stopped when I realized it was another evolved bug book but the story kept taking turns and I was involved. I was lost on some of the evolution stuff Tchaikovsky throws in there but I did like the story by the end. Two more books to go.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm